National Horizons Centre (Biosciences) | Research

The National Horizons Centre (NHC) is a £22.3m centre of excellence for the bioscience industries. With research, partnerships and training at its core, the NHC brings together industry, academia, talent and world-class facilities to create real-world impact.

The centre is focussed around three core specialisms:

Disease-specific research
Biomanufacturing
Digital analytics and machine learning

Through fundamental and applied research, the NHC prides itself on discovering diseases earlier, developing novel treatments and delivering life-saving medicines quicker, safer and more affordably.

It works with a range of public and private sector partners to accelerate innovation, including public health organisations, academic institutions, business start-ups, SMEs and multinationals.

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Research centre leads

Professor Vikki Rand

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Research at Teesside

Nicole Beddard

Research is key to finding new ways of changing things through interventions and bio-scientific methods. Without it, I wouldn't be here as research into retinoblastoma, an eye cancer, saved my life.

Nicole Beddard, Senior Technician

News

Prestigious science festival hears from Teesside academic

A Teesside University academic has provided an online lecture as part of a science festival organised by one of the world’s most prestigious science academies.

A complex crab invasion carries parasites to Argentina

Marine biologists and pathologists at IBIOMAR, (CCT CONICET CENPAT) Argentina, and Teesside University have discovered a new parasite that is infecting crab species off the coast of Argentina and which could have serious consequences for the vital fishing industry in the country.

Dr Maria Juanes, biomedical sciences lecturer, School of Health & Life Sciences. Link to Teesside University academic wins cancer research funding boost.

Teesside University academic wins cancer research funding boost

Vital work into cancer research by a Teesside University academic has received a welcome boost in the form of almost £100,000 funding.

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The human body never truly disappears – finding the remnants of a tragic end can help us uncover atrocities

06/11/2019
Tim Thompson

The dead are never really gone. In archaeology and the forensic sciences, that’s quite literally true.

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How bison, moose and caribou stepped in to do the cleaning work of extinct mammoths

29/04/2020
Ambroise Baker

The extinction of one species can create ripples that transform an ecosystem. That’s particularly true for so-called “ecosystem engineer” species.

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Climate change: 40°C summer temperatures could be common in UK by 2100

30/06/2020
Lisa Baldini

A stark warning about the kind of summer that could become routine in the UK by the end of this century has been issued in a new study by the country’s Met Office.

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Invasive species: biggest threat may be the most uncertain – disease

26/11/2020
Jamie Bojko | Amy Burgess

Showering celebrities with cockroaches, spiders and other exotic bugs might have seemed fun in Australia, but it’s a different story when the bushtucker trials move to Wales.

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Scans reveal new details of how Egyptian pharaoh met a violent death

17/02/2021
Tim Thompson

There’s something about mummies that always fascinates people. We see this from the attention given to mummies in museum exhibitions and in their frequent appearance in books, films and games.

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Do genetic differences make some people more susceptible to COVID-19?

26/02/2021
Vikki Rand | Maria O’Hanlon

Coronavirus affects people differently – some infected develop life-threatening disease, while others remain asymptomatic. And a year aftere COVID-19 emerged, it’s still unclear why.

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Death in space: here’s what would happen to our bodies

15/10/2021
Tim Thompson

As space travel for recreational purposes is becoming a very real possibility, there could come a time when we are travelling to other planets for holidays, or perhaps even to live.

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How climate change is washing away precious evidence of our distant past

01/02/2022
Gillian Taylor

As well as threatening biodiversity, food systems and human health, climate change has another victim: ancient artefacts. At some UK sites of archaeological interest, unusually heavy rainfall is eroding layers of protective peat to damage the preserved relics that lie beneath.

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